Leonard Cohen's poem on Kanye West from 'The Flame' gets buzz online

"The Flame", Cohen's posthumous book of poetry, was released on October 2, and one poem is entitled "Kanye West Is Not Picasso".

In the recently published book "The Flame", which also includes lyrics and illustrations by the late Canadian literary and music star, is a piece titled "Kanye West is Not Picasso".

It seems the poem, dated March 15, 2015, was written shortly after West compared himself to the artist Pablo Picasso during a speech at Oxford University.

The poem features lines like "Kanye West is not Picasso/ I am Picasso" and "I am the Kanye West of Kanye West/ The Kanye West/ Of the great bogus shift of bulls**t culture". "I am Picasso", starts Cohen's poem. Later he adds, "I am the Kanye West Kanye West thinks he is/ When he shoves your ass off the stage".

Cohen died little more than a week after Trump won the 2016 presidential election, so the poem clearly had nothing to do with the rapper's Oval Office meeting. "A lot of, say Jay Z or Kanye West ― you don't have to identify with every position they take, especially if you're white", he told The Wall Street Journal in 2014.

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